Woman s overglove or the like



Feb. 28, 1961 B. R. HAYNES WOMANS OVERGLOVE OR THE LIKE Filed Feb; 20, 1959 FIG. 2A FIG.2B FIG. 2C

INVENTOR. BILLIE R. HAYNES HER ATTORNEY awe United sees ,PatentC WOMANS VERGLO\E OR THE LIKE Billie R. Haynes, 149 Jeremy St., Salt Lake City, Utah Filed Feb. 20, 1959, Ser. No. 794,739

'4 Claims. (Cl. 2-46) This invention relates to glove items in general, and more particularly to a transparent overglove which women may wear to protect their white or colored gloves when worn.

In the past many types of items of a transparent nature have been developed for covering various wearing apparel when worn, to protect the same from moisture, dirt, etc. In considering moisture, for example, almost everyone is familar with transparent, plastic rain coats and mens hat covers, the same being designed to protect the associated wearing apparel from the effects of inclement weather. To the inventors knowledge there has not as yet been developed a transparent overglove for ladies wear. It seems, particularly for spring and summer costumes, that women prefer to wear lightcolored gloves of a cloth or kid type. These gloves become very easily soiled when women are driving, touch wet or soiled doorknobs, etc. The purpose of the, present overglove is to retain the appearance of the worn dress glove (by making the overglove transparent) while at the same time protecting the dress glove from soiling due to the touching of external objects.

It has been found that several requirements must .be met by a suitable glove. Of course, it should be of transparent materiala thin sheet material will do; the glove material should be adapted for easy formation of seams; means should be provided for securing the glove tightly about the wrist of the wearer; and, most important, the same means should also serve as a selffastening means for securing the glove into a small, compact packet for easy storage within a womans purse or pocket.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a transparent ladys overglove to protect dress gloves when worn from premature soil.

A further object of the present invention is to provide an overglove of the type described wherein fastener means are provided for securing the overglove tightly about the wrist when worn, and, when unworn, for securing the glove (and perhaps its mate also) into a tiny packet for transport and storage.

According to the present invention a womans overglove is made of a thin, transparent, polyethylene material (or some other suitable plastic). Such material will lend itself easily to hot-seaming, the same being done by means of rollers, heating dies, etc. and being well known in the art. The glove includes a principal member and a thumb member which includes a wrist area of substantial fullness. The purpose of this fullness is to permit easy insertion of the hand into the glove and most important, to provide a sufiicient backing so as to enable the rest of the glove to be folded thereagainst for packet formation. This area of fullness in the glove isprovided with fastener means, preferably of the familiar hook and eye configuration, for securing the glove tightly about the wearers wrist and also for self-containing in packet form the glove (and perhaps its mate also) in convenient storage condition.

PatentedFeio. 2?, 1%61 The features of the present invention which are believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The present invention, both as to its organization and manner of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following description, takenside strips completing the'finger pockets.

Figures 2A, 2B and 2C are elevations of the respective finger side strips alluded to in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an elevation of the thumb member of the glove when the same is disposed in flat pattern layout.

Figure 4 is an elevation of the completed transparent overglove of the present invention.

Figure 5 is an elevation of the overglove of Figure 4 when the same is in its folded condition ready for further folding into packet form. a

Figure 6 is an end elevation of the completely folded glove into packet form.

In Figures 1-4 the overglove is shown to consist of a principal member 10 and a thumb member 11. The thumb member 11 is designed to have a contour as illustrated in Figure 3 so that edges A and B thereof may be hot-seamed together to form thumb portion 12 in Figure 4. The material between edges C and D in Figure 3 constitutes wrist portion 13 (in Figure 4) which is sufiiciently wide as to exhibit a marked degree of fullness when seamed to theremainder of the glove.

The glove principal member 10 in Figure 4 includes a material blank definingthe front and rear portions 15 and 16 and the fingers 17 of the overglove. The rear portion 16 of the overglove includes back area 18 and wrist area 19 and has a longitudinal, thumb member securement edge 38; the front portion 15 of the overglove includes palm area 20 and wrist area 21 and has additional, thumb member securement edge 39 which is indented with respect to edge 38 and which forms the marginal indentation 27. As may be seen with reference to Figure 1, the respective areas are integral with each other.

To form the fingers 17 in Figure 4 the finger blanks 17 and 17" in Figure 1 are interspaced by the U- oriented strips 22, 23 and 24, found in Figures 2A through 2C and shown therein in flat pattern layout Thus, side strip 22 in Figure 2A constitutes adjacent sides of the fingers E and F in Figure 1; side strip 23 in Figure 2B constitutes the adjacent sides of the fingers F and G in Figure 1, and side strip 24 in Figure 2C con-. stitutes the adjacent sides of fingers G and H in Figure 1.

Dotted lines 22, 23 and 24' illustrate the disposition of the longitudinal, medial creases which will exist in the strips 22, 23, and'24, respectively, when the glove is in its fiat condition. Phantom'lines 22", 23" and 24-" indicate the dispositions of the innermost regions of the finger seams, these seams being formed by the conventional hot-roll or hot-die methods; Thus, one longitudinal edge of each of the strips in Figures 2A through 2C will be hot-seamed to the associated finger blank FB belonging to the front. glove-half whereas the remaining longitudinal edge will be hot-seamed to the respective finger blanks FB' of the rear glove-half.

Once the attachment of the side strips to the finger blanks has been completed, there need remains only the step of hot-seaming the tips of the fingers to complete the several finger pockets.

Phantom line 25 (and its extension 25' into the finger area) in Figure 4 illustrates the innermost region of the hot-seam which joins the left side of the glove together and fixes (i.e. line 25) the thumb member 11 to principal member 10 at the left-hand side thereof. Phantom line 26 illustrates the innermost region of the hot-seam which joins the thumb member 11 over the open, indented area 27 of the thumb member 11 in Figure 1 so as to secure the wrist portion 13 of thumb member 11 to the inner curved edge 27 of front portion 15.

Before the final seams 2S and 26 are completed the fastener elements 28 and 29 should be disposed in place so that the shanks 30 and 30' thereof, respectively, will be laterally disposed between the completed seams. In addition to including shank 30, fastener element 28 includes a base-rod portion 31 and a hook portion 32. The base-rod portion 31 is disposed against the inner regions of the seam 25 and may be permanently secured in place by the insertion of a plurality of loops of thread T around the seam and base-rod portion by passing the threads through the glove proper.

The fastener element 29, in addition to including shank 3i), also includes an eye portion 32 and a base-rod portion 33, the latter fitting against its respective seam in a manner similar to that of base-rod portion 31 of fastener element 28. Correspondingly, a plurality of thread loops T may also be passed over the ends of the base-rod portion of element 2? so as to secure the same to the glove seam 27.

It is of importance that the two fastener elements be situated at or near the two thunib member seams and at medial points thereof. This will become clearer by brief consideration of Figures and 6.

As is seen with reference to Figure 5, the glove is placed in a series of vertical folds and is disposed immediately to the rear of and against the wrist portion 13 of thumb member 11. Subsequently, the fingers and upper portion of the glove are folded rearwardly a series of times in the direction of the arrow J until the same form a small bundle of folded material disposed between the dotted lines 34 and 35. Subsequently, portion 36 (the lower portion of wrist portion 13) is folded around rearwardly as indicated by arrow K so as to cover the folded material of the upper portion of the glove. Thereafter, the hook and eye elements are urged rearwardly together so as to form a small self-contained packet as is illustrated in Figure 6.

So far as fastener elements are concerned it has been found that the hook and eye elements are much superior than other types of devices, including snap fasteners, and so forth. The reason is that the hook and eye elements may be easily secured together when the wearer has the glove on her hand so as to retain the glove tightly about the wrist. This is accomplished by the hook and eye being urged into engagement into a forward direction (in Figure 4, toward the viewer). The employment of the hook and eye elements enable the gatherings of glove material in Figure 5 to be disposed rearwardly of the full Wrist portion 13, and the hook and eye elements being brought into engagement in the reverse direction, if desired. This reverse engagement of the hook and eye is preferred in order that the exterior of the packet shown in Figure 6 be as smooth as possible, i.e. with only one edge of the material being exposed. This edge will be edge 37 in Figure 5.

While particular embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications may be made without departing from this invention in its broader aspects, and, therefore, the aim in the appended claims is to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of this invention.

I claim:

1. A transparent, self-packaging overglove for women including, in combination, a principal member having fingers, a front portion having palm and wrist areas integral with each other, and a rear portion having back and wrist areas integral with each other, and provided with a longitudinal, thumb member securement edge, said palm and wrist areas of said front portion being provided with a marginal, open indentation forming an additional, thumb member securement edge, said indentation extending from and through said front portion wrist area toward but not reaching said fingers, said additional edge of said indentation being indented with respect to said thumb member securement edge of said rear portion; a thumb member having a thumb portion and a fullness characterized wrist portion integral there with, said thumb member being disposed over said indentation and being joined to said rear portion at said longitudinal, securement edge, thereof to form a first seam and to said front portion at said additional, securement edge thereof to form a second seam which meets said first seam between said thumb portion and said fingers; and first and second, intercooperating, fastener element means respectively disposed in the proximity of said seams at medial points thereof for selectively joining said medial points together in a forward direction to secure the over-glove tightly about the wearers wrist and, alternatively, when joining said medial points in a double back direction, to secure in a small, tight package said glove, with portions thereof folded together and said thumb member wrist portion wrapped therearound and secured together by said fastener element means.

2. An overglove according to claim 1 in which said means comprise hook and eye elements, respectively.

3. An overglove according to claim 2 in which said hook and eye elements have transverse base rod portions disposed against their respective seams and a shank integral therewith passing through the respective seam.

4. An overglove according to claim 3 in which thread means are wrapped about each seam and fastener element combination in the region of said base rod portions.

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